The United States and Poland have formally signed a deal to deploy American missiles in the east European nation. The United States says the missiles are needed to guard against attacks from rogue states like Iran; Russia says the deployment threate...
U.S. officials are accusing Pakistan's primary intelligence service of helping to carry out last month's bomb attack on India's embassy in Afghanistan. U.S. newspapers reported that American intelligence agencies claim they have evidence linking Pak...
U.S. President George Bush is promoting his freedom agenda, and urging his successor to do the same. As VOA White House correspondent Paula Wolfson reports, Mr. Bush used a speech at the headquarters of the government's foreign aid agency to talk ab...
U.S. President George Bush and opposition Democrats are both paying tribute to America's armed forces, as part of the celebration of the nation's 232nd anniversary. VOA's Kent Klein reports from Washington. President George W. Bush On this Independe...
By Lisa Bryant Paris 12 June 2008 International donors pledged billions of dollars in aid for Afghanistan at a meeting in Paris, but also urged Kabul to do more to fight corruption and instability. Lisa Bryant has more from the French capital. Deleg...
By Sonja Pace London 12 June 2008 International donors pledged more than $15.5 billion in aid for Afghanistan during a one-day meeting Paris. Western leaders and experts have repeatedly argued that Afghanistan needs more NATO troops to fight the Tal...
By Scott Bobb Johannesburg 08 April 2008 Opposition leaders in Zimbabwe say supporters of President Robert Mugabe have launched a campaign of violence in order to derail elections 10 days ago, which they say they won. The accusation comes as a court...
By Challiss McDonough Cairo 23 March 2008 At peace talks in Yemen, the two warring Palestinian factions have agreed to hold direct talks for the first time since the collapse of their unity government in June following the Hamas takeover of the Gaza...
By Phil Mercer Darwin, Australia 13 February 2008 Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd has made a historic apology to the country's Aboriginal people for past mistreatment. Mr. Rudd said past policies of assimilation under which indigenous children w...
By Derek Kilner Nairobi 08 February 2008 A delegation from the East African regional bloc IGAD has concluded a visit to Kenya to discuss the current political crisis. As Derek Kilner reports from Nairobi, recent days have seen a flurry of diplomatic...